Tag: NH in National News
Performance Assessments and Students with Disabilities
New Hampshire's Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) program has become a national model for competency-based assessment and moving away from rigid, bubble sheet-style...
Commitment to 21st century skills at Sanborn Regional School District makes national news
EdSurge has published a piece called How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy that features the work being done in the Sanborn Regional...
VLACS funding model "one of the best in the nation"
New Hampshire's only online K-12 school, the Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), is revolutionizing online learning--and the method that states fund online learning....
NH best in nation for K-12, according to U.S. News’ “Best States” rankings
New Hampshire is a great place to live. Number two overall, actually, according to US News and World Report's "Best States" rankings. But where New Hampshire...
NH leads the way, but competency-based ed is catching on in other states
New Hampshire started its move toward competency-based education over 10 years ago. Most recently, school districts who choose to do it have participated in...
Implementing competency-based learning the New Hampshire way
Education Next featured an in-depth report on competency-based education in New Hampshire and how the state is leading the nation in innovative educational models....
Pittsfield’s alternative discipline program gains national attention
Pittsfield's restorative justice program teaches students the meaning of conflict resolution, while teaching them empathy and holding them accountable to their peers.
As PACE program grows, teachers and administrators "thrilled" with progress
Senior staff of the Council of Chief State School Officers visited several of New Hampshire's widely-watched PACE districts recently to get an idea of how schools...
Granite State students score higher than national average on SAT
The College Board released the score reports on the Class of 2015, and New Hampshire students scored 76 points higher than the national average. According...
More NH graduates meet ACT College and Career Readiness Benchmarks
The results are in, and more New Hampshire students are meeting the ACT's College and Career Ready Benchmarks than in the past five years.
According...